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Best Afterthoughts Poems

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These Ribbons I Tie As You Leave
Blue – 
for your arm wrapped around
my clavicle. I thought
I would loose my breath.

Red – 
for the cusp of our hip bones
struggling to pull the...

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Categories: afterthoughts, angst, introspection, loss, lost
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Her Love Exit -
She spoke about Love as though it were a ghost
that haunted Her heart, a gobblin of garrulous grind & grime,
a spector of weakness that if...

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Categories: afterthoughts, love, love,
Form: Romanticism
The Break of Day
daybreak grounds me
the horizon blushes
an end to night's passion
as the dawn unfolds my dreams

it seems
you own my mind
all my thoughts tumble
like autumn leaves
in winded breaths
whispered...

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Categories: afterthoughts, absence, day, longing, memory,
Form: Free verse
Lie, Truth, & Reality
I walk above all pain
            risen and relentless 
     ...

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Categories: afterthoughts, introspection, loveheart, heart,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Emergent
How can one man find
More faith in a crevasse of Siula Grande,
Than most will ever know,
Sitting beneath a pulpit on Sunday?

Dulling the truth to grow...

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Categories: afterthoughts, bible, christian, dark, death,
Form: Didactic



Premium Member By Now You Have Forgot' - To Whom It May Concern - Part 2
Continued from Part 1

               “Upon your knees in golden naves, while...

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Categories: afterthoughts, men, time, war,
Form: Monorhyme
Once I Dreamed a Little Dream
it was of someone I once knew
but I did not yet know 
it was of love and kindness 
a union of spirit a familiar soul...

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Categories: afterthoughts, allegory, angel, angst, art,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Captive of Circumstance
Your thought-balloons are filled with wild and magical freedom ~

until madness seizes your think tank 
trapping your ceaselessly chirping ideas 
within the teeth of its...

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Categories: afterthoughts, angst, pain, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Glory and the Grandeur
with punishing fury
   yesternight
the skies wreaked their havoc
   a rat-a-tat-tat of hail bullets
midst wave upon wave of rain
   drenching...

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Categories: afterthoughts, blessing, earth, nature, storm,
Form: Verse
Labyrinth of Sighs
Labyrinth of Sighs 

Wondering through a labyrinth of sighs 
More platitudes with attitudes that never question why 
A litany of afterthoughts about where we go...

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Categories: afterthoughts, life,
Form: Rhyme
Acclivity
ACCLIVITY

It is so easy to refine and relax through this perceptual escape.
Your thoughts are pure and thinking is disengaged.
As time pass, we will discuss out.
We...

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Categories: afterthoughts, freedom, future, inspirational, peace,
Form: Dramatic Verse
I Miss
I miss the remedies of our past selves,
I miss the extract of blight from the tip of your lips.
I miss your abstract sunrise tumbling down...

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Categories: afterthoughts, absence, deep, first love,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Nature
N atural niceties
A ffectionate afterthoughts in the afternoon
T antilising textures
U nderstanding the unseen
R epeated splendidness in the morning mist
E ssential oxygenated environment...

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Categories: afterthoughts, change, environment, morning, nature,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member The Parlor of Prometheus - Part Four -
" She was born in 219 A.D.,
I met her in 235 when she was 16 years old.
I was working hard with her father as a...

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Categories: afterthoughts, creation,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Forgotten Umbrellas
Umbrellas become afterthoughts
once the rain has cleared away,
And are left behind like discarded lovers
whose partners have moved on for a brighter day.

Held close and tight...

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: afterthoughts, symbolism,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs